Wokingham

TWO YEARS after its establishment, a Hurst charity is expanding its premises. The Cowshed, which provides good quality, clean, ironed clothes and other essentials free to those in need, has...

A FUNDRAISING campaign set up to help the family of a councillor who died suddenly last month has raised more than £9,000. James Box, who served on Wokingham Town Council,...

A FINCHAMPSTEAD woman is wishing she had the Pied Piper on speed dial. Janet Robinson has been suffering the effects of a rat infestation in her neighbour’s house for two...

Cherry tree Sometimes in the morningWhen the world is hard to faceIn lonely isolationNo contact with the human race It feels life’s not worth livingWith no-one there to shareAnd every...

IT STARTED with one homemade pizza, and grew into a lockdown business. Nick Fyffe mastered the sweet taste of Neapolitan pizza in the summer of 2019. It was a summer...

Walking down the road todayI saw some pictures on displayAll the lovely picturesFastened in a rowI stopped and studied all of themI did not want to goWho had drawn these...

EARLIER this year it was a lake, now land in Shinfield has been reclassified as natural greenspace. But residents may need to find their waders if they want to have...

WOKINGHAM residents have raised £1,000 during their weekly food shop. Last weekend, Tesco invited colleagues and customers to dress in pink and donate any spare change to Cancer Research UK....

ONE OF the borough’s four MPs said he is pleased to see the council is looking to invest in safe cycle routes for Woodley residents. Matt Rodda, MP for Reading...

THE Wokingham Walk will be taking place on Sunday, September 6, in support of Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice. There are three routes: five-,  10- and 15-miles long. Each start and...